Herb Ritts Quotes
I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
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I want to challenge myself to see where my limit is and experiment with a lot of different films. A lot of artists from Asia focus too much on their Asian background. I don't want to let go of my background, but to be a success in the U.S., which is my goal, I realize I need to surround myself with American filmmakers and producers.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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Idiocy: crudeness’ intellectual equivalent.
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I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies, this compounded adversity. I'm not naive about the problem. But I think that stable, steady housing is one of the surest footholds we could have on the road to financial stability.
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The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.
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If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.
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The best types of problems are those that seem harder at first than when you think about it.
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You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it.
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I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn't believe it.
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When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.
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Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
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I very much feel like I'm part of the makeup of 'Once Upon a Time.'
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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When I become prime minister, I'm going to buy one of those Margaret Thatcher handbags, and I'll bang it on the table and demand my money back from the government for past bad services.
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When I'm really purring it, I feel as if my whole left side - from knee to hip to shoulder - is turning behind me as I swing through the ball.
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I think there's a pedigree that comes with being from Chicago that gives you some cache outside of L.A. and New York, where, frankly, most of show business really is.
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These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.
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The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong... There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated.
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I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.
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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
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I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.
